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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 811.54 EAN: 9780152938239 ISBN: 0152938230 Label: Voyager Books Manufacturer: Voyager Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 48 Publication Date: October 29, 1982 Publisher: Voyager Books Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Studio: Voyager Books Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Poetry for ChildrenI became acquainted with Nancy Willard's poetry when I found a review for "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" in the listing of another Amazon reviewer. The present book, copyright 1981, won the John Newbery Medal for tne most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. I would hesitate to recommend an age group. I turn 70 next week, and I enjoyed the poems. The poems can be read to younger children, or read by older children. There are large, full color illustrations. There are ... Read More Rating:  - The best inn everThis book is so funny because of the character's attitude. It even has strong words, like "makintosh".But I like it best because it has poems that rhyme. Rating: - Willard captures the essence of Blake's poetryThis book contains a collection of poems written to honor poet William Blake. The setting is an inn run by Blake and Willard captures the style of Blake in her poems. Two dragons that cook and bake, two angels that do the housekeeping and a rabbit that escorts the guests to their rooms manage the inn. Illustrations accompany each poem and they are excellent, the inn is a splendid place to spend the night. The guests include the Man in the Marmalade Hat, the King of Cats and sunflowers who request ... Read More Rating: - FANTASTICAL SALUTE IN VERSEReaders, here is your chance to be transported to a world of poetic delights, inspired by "the fearful symmetry" of William Blake's writings. Author Nancy Willard interprets his poems in the marvelous 'stage setting' of "William Blake's Inn"...an imaginary, very British hostelry. It is inhabited by a "man in the marmalade hat" and the King of Cats who breakfasts among the chimney pots of London. Willard's own verse does cartwheels, lifting the reader out of stodginess into the stratosphere ... Read More Rating:  - You must be this old to understand this bookIn this book, the author has written a collection of poems about William Blake and a magical inn he runs. This book was read to me when I was a child and I hadn't felt any need to look at it since. This is probably due to the fact that as a kid I just couldn't get into the story. Hoping to see what my nine year-old self couldn't, I decided to give Ms. Willard another go. Rereading it now, I can see where my frustration came from. The plot is very loose, the poems nice but unconnected, and the pictures ... Read More 
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